Hey, CT. I feel sorry for all of us! This isn’t the country I grew up in…. ducking and covering but feeling that, for the most part, there were honest people around. A-f*cking-mazing to find my self so aged and so amazed. Perfidy. Surely there’s a song about it.

I have wonderful friends and live in a wonderful place, but I worry that there will be another crash that takes out what I have left of my savings as the last Bankster crash did. I just didn’t have the imagination to imagine how disgusting the greedsters would be and how corrupt the politicians would be. Just lacked the imagination. Who’d a thought?!

It really was. It appears that Democratic senators succeeded in running out the clock (with the help of a boisterous gallery), but that slightly after midnight — by which time the Senate was no longer in session — the Rethuglicans voted anyway to pass a bill restricting women’s abortion rights. Angry, exhausted, curious to see what will happen next.

hi all!Dickie’s Such an A**hole
this song from forty years ago, in Austin, TX, has been a constant in my house for 25, almost 30 years. It’s a reminder how shocking it was that the mere notion that Nixon or the FBI HAD tape machines running, in the white house, etc. was to folks back then. If the FBI could tape the wh or the president could then, who couldn’t be taped and slandered… out of context or otherwise, etc.
So the modern spill where everybody gets virtually taped or accessible, where the simplest David Gregory conflation can be proposed like it was a clear, sensible solution, for greatest-mass-mastication, and the concrete counter-arguments are brushed off as ‘extreme’ ideology …
that view, which seems so common on tv today, is not so new to my pov. It’s the same old game.
But while resilient (I guess), the only real way ‘out’ is to be building a better rocketship. One that provides more quality solutions for more people, rather than the ’50′s – or 1930′s – utopia that the far-right want to make here, that never existed in the first place.

I’m so fucking sick of nasty, grotesque men-of-limited-skills writing laws for obscene reasons.
But, worse than that, I’m so angry at all the women I know who did nothing when the attacks were first starting 10 years ago, who do nothing now. That’s a hard anger to process, for me.

apropos lyrics:
“One ‘n one is eleven!
Two ‘n two is twenty-two!
Won’t somebody kindly tell me,
What the government’s tryin’ t’ do . . .
Dickie’s just too tricky
For a chump like me to use
Well, you’d take that sub-committee serious, boy
You might get a seizure from the evenin’ news”

It’s really nice nice that somebody pays attention to what I type; because I sure as hell, don’t. Besides, I really love both Jim and Gordon and have mucho grande albums from both. Through thick and thin, I kept the vinyl and the Bong & Olufsen ( pun ).

I been watching this space for years now, and I don’t think it’s you either. Tho I admit I don’t often get on the tubes S/S/M night/mornings. It’s my time to do other stuff, rather than… what’s probably some kind of lateral thinking exercise, I do here… or something

sorry to hear you’re getting a heat wave, Suz. We’re expecting triple digits for the next five days, starting tomorrow. I read on commmondreams-dot-org where a town 100 miles north of Anchorage had a record high of 96 on June 17th. Ouch..!

No. The Republicans will claim that they adjourned by midnight or, if they don’t claim that, they’ll claim that they failed to adjourn by midnight because of all the tumult in the chamber and that they added time to the clock, like happens at the end of a soccer game. This thing is still a live ball, I believe.

Wow. That wouldn’t be an accident either. right? maybe, maybe not. ?
fuckin’ old white men, you can’t tell when they’re being devious assholes and when they’re just dump pricks unless you can physically look them in the eye. Then it’s real easy.

Which reminds me of the line by right-winger Thomas Sowell, “A People’s Republic is a country where yesterday’s weather can be changed by decree.” Welcome to the People’s Republic of Texas. Ooh, that’s a good line — gonna go and tweet it.

on the other hand, Snowden won’t get a jury trial like OJ did,
and the gubmint ain’t like LA County, where celebrities can get the priciest lawyers ;
tho DC does have the Village’s ‘best talking heads’ to blast unending superficialities and confuse the basic issues of the case and it’s ramifications, so that’ll be similar
regardless how one feels about the outcopmes of that case

Okay dear people, I’m needing hugs because I’m planning the demise of my darling Millennium Puppy, Zora. Probably Thursday. We got her Dec.31,1999. A 6 week old shelter puppy who’s mom was lucky enough to be homeless and pregnant and find a foster family to take her in for the birth and whelping. Zora, black and tan; pitbull, rottweiler, labrador, shepard, feet like a beagle. Nose for dead things, a true corpse dog at 6 weeks old. Slow and in a world of her own.
It’s so hard to be the one deciding when enough’s enough. I keep saying “one more day” and so far that’s been right.
peace and hug your pets

Thank you. She had an awesome life for a dog. Total freedom, tide flats to run on, dead things to her heart’s content, lesser animals to guard and bully[without harm], a job requiring her to work security and patrol borders, an inside bed, an outside bed. It was good to be Zora.

Yes, and it’s techno. I remember this song getting Into My Head…………………..uh oh, scanning….
I was all set to call it a night back there and “just check it on Texas”. Shit, I’m all jazzed up now. Some times it seems very clear that there is a new Awakening 2012.

Is there an Internet Thank you card to Wendy Davis? It’d be cool if FDL could send a few bucks her way as a collective. I’ve still got a scant few. Actually, I’ve gotten into the old fundraiser pass-the-hat mode to get $25 together for different actions and supports. I get dollars here and there and pay for it on my card. $25 is better than $5.

Hey all y’all: Wendy Davis did it!!! The comically evil Lt. Gov finally caved and admitted the vote started too late to count. What with the evidence that someone had monkeyed with the time and all. So SB5 is dead for now.